Everyone knows that Jurgen Klopp will leave Liverpool at the end of the season, but will Mohamed Salah follow suit?
The 31-year-old’s current contract at Liverpool expires in 2025 and you feel some sort of decision will need to be made in the summer.
Saudi Arabia have been calling for some while and you feel that if a huge offer comes in, then the powers that be at Anfield can’t turn that down because of his age and current contract situation.
It has been a season of drama for Mohamed Salah and his recent spat with Klopp didn’t help matters.
Liverpool aren’t going to win the Premier League title this season and players like Salah, along with his teammates, have to take responsibility because they haven’t been good enough.
Yet despite Salah’s indifferent form, he still has 18 Premier League goals and ten assists to his name.
That’s him on his off-day, or off-season, as some suggest, so imagine what he is like when he is absolutely firing?!
Graeme Souness has recently claimed that he doesn’t think the Egypt star is ‘world-class’.
David Thompson, who repped Liverpool for four years and also played under Souness at Blackburn Rovers, wasn’t having those comments and thinks the former midfielder can be ‘controversial’, as he told Stadium Astro.
When you have won every trophy possible, played a key role in it, and scored 211 goals and supplied 89 assists for England’s biggest club, then you can’t be anything other than world-class.
Mohamed Salah world-class
Three seasons in a row now double-figures for assists, double figures in four of the last five seasons: “I don’t know in how many of them seasons he has broken the 30-goal mark also,” said Thompson.
“I know Graeme (Souness) and I love him to bits. I played under Graeme at Blackburn. He can be a little controversial at times. But he has played with some world-class players. Kenny Dalglish. Toshack. Ian Rush. He is in a good position to know a good striker.
“But I really doubt why he hasn’t called Mo Salah world-class. It’s maybe because you don’t see Egypt at the World Cups. Maybe he doesn’t watch the AFCON and see what he delivers on that stage. He is probably thinking you have to do it in World Cups. You have to do it in the big stages to be able to be considered world-class. He shouldn’t hold that against him that he doesn’t appear in World Cups and demonstrate what he can do. He is world-class. His numbers are world-class. His numbers are a little selfish. You have got to be selfish to be at that level – if he drops below those targets, he gets frustrated, as you saw last week.”
Mohamed Salah under Arne Slot
It has been well-documented that Arne Slot is going to become Liverpool’s next manager.
Regardless of what you think of the Feyenoord coach, he is going to need every ounce of help next season.
That’s where Salah comes into the equation and he needs to stay for the sake of the club’s long-term future.
If Liverpool want quick success post-Klopp, then someone like Salah, and keeping him, would play a huge part in that.
